The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-11-23
NO. H..

wedge, aud the great mass is cleft from
/ bottom to top, and from end to end, be-
tore your eyes. If other holes have
bccn drilled in the side, and they always
are, the process is promptly repeated
and re-repeated, and in o short time the
remains of that particular nastodon dis
appear from the face of the earth, leav-
lnS only few basketful of fragments to
show where it reposed for so many ages.
MARVELLOUS WORK.
Nor is this the most striking and Gu.
riOus illustration Of the facility with
which tho stone can be handled. A
great deal of the Winnsboro granite is
used for paving purposes. Large guam
titles of the paving blocks are now be-
/ lag hauled past the granite quarries of
( Georgia and intermediate States in order
20 give to Cincinnati the best roadways
III the world, and Charlestonians drive
] oycv others OF the same character every
day. The making of the familiar little
stone bricks which arc used for this kind
/ OF work looks like magic to one who sees
the operation for the first time. A slab
as large as an ordinary yalisc is priced
from the rcft sidc of the boulder, or
from the fuco Of the quarried block, and
FALLS at the feet of the workman on the
Ground below. His pr8cticed eye tells
him at once on which side of the frag-
ment the lines OF cleavage run, and none
but practiced eye can detect any differ
encc between one side and another
With no earthly reason whatever, that
You can discover, for his choice, he
turns the block till the right side is up
pormost. a half dozen light strokes
with the sharp edge OF his hammer trace
4 white line the whole length of the
D'ook This line is crossed by another
ilNe II at right angles. The block is
;Uncd bottom side up. Then one or
two sharp blows fall somewhere near the
| rdSr, aud tue block 'splits" in two.
Each vi the halves receives a rap or so,
! IN turn, and each "breaks," not splits
IN just the right place. Whatever the
size OF the block, this simple process
soon makes fractions of it, and the
Workman is marking new lines on q new
valise before You ore well aware that he
iIas picked the lock of the first. The
performance appears to be the easiest
way OF making living that has yet been
discovered, and all the luborers seem
happy and content. y glance at their
yelling muscles however, shows that
anoy are Dot engaged i'll play, and any
2A" WHO might feel disposed to adopt
tIuIr profession or art on the spot would
probably be met with the advice to go
dod practice with 4 alcdge hammer, i'll Il
blacksmith shop, for year or two by
way OF primary education.
one or THE wO&DERS.
One OF the wonders OF the quarry is to
see the iightness and freedom with which
lie granite masses, OF all sizes, are lifted
and turned and run away with, as
hough the touch Of the hand discharged
thc power Of grayitatlon and converted
bonldcrs into beds of down, hard to lie
Oh but easy to make up and move about.
You stand with the manager and his
foreman by the side OF one of the great
loEmS rs large as meeting house, and
~ the pit at your foot is a solid street
car. Nothing daunted, the two experts
npcuk OF cutting up the one as though it
II were loaf OF bakers bread, and of
HaisAh9 me other 70 the surface as if it
we're II biscuit. And YOU cannot help
looking at them again to see whether
they are indeed men of your own mould
or whether there is anything in their
countcnanccS to warrant the hope that
incy will be more rational when the
moon changes.
SUNrASSES ALL OTHERS.
They are rational enough, however.
incir words are justified by thoir works
aud the signs of these are all around YOU.
Inc raw and precious material is melt.
ing away from the hill tops, under intel
i8ent and skilled direction, and is
steadily flowing down into the valley
which IS its outlet to The great cities of
the country. The industry is still com
pamt!ycIy its infancy, great and grow
ing IL it is. The beauty of the stone
exhibited. 1t is perfect i'll appearance
when freshly cut and is devoid of the
rOn aud other componcuts which mar
other GRANTEES after brief exposure to
atmospheric influences 1t may be seen
10 advantage here in Charleston, in the
Calhoun monument and the Dragons
monument, and the Government build
lnGs IN Columbia and Nashville have
given it widespread renown. No other
granite III the United states can compare
with it in any desirable particular, and
this fact ls already too we'll known to re-
uuire much advertisement.
The variety of uses to which the stone
can be applied is shown by the state
mCnt of the experts who have examined
II, that it can be cut in plates not more
than one inch thick and five or more
feet in length, on the one hand, while it
can also be quarrled for delivery in
lengths of soyentyfvo feet, or as long
ana large as Il railroad car can carry. 1t
$ needless to add that the granite is sus-
tcptlble OF u fine polish, as that follows
from its even texture and hardness.
TIE COMING DEVELOPMENT,
What is most needed now is to develop
5hc quarry on scale that will enable the
SupDly to meet ony demand that rnox, no
made upon it, and this is the work that
has been undertaken by the new COM
pany, with the assurance of immediate
4uccess. Abundance of home capital,
under the direction of home capitalists
Iud managers, has been enlisted in tho
enterprise, and its future is bright in
deed. The whole story might be summed
up in a few words. South Caroline has
thc finest deposit of granite in the
Union, and proposes now to supply the
| whole Union with il. Ii ia trnlv q NAG.